You Got This!: Recent Episodes
LTI at Thompson Rivers University
A weekly podcast about teaching, learning, and pivoting to digital from the Learning Technology and Innovation team at Thompson Rivers University.
Brenna is alone this week as she says farewell to Season 3 with a few parting thoughts about AI (she hopes 2023-24 is less about AI). Show Notes The programming on AI that Brenna mentions in this episode is open for registration now: AI Crash Course: Artificial Intelligence 101 AI Crash Course: What Do My […]
This week, Brenna is breaking a promise and back to talking about ^@^#&#$*&^ academic integrity and artificial intelligence. Luckily, she has a campus expert on for a second visit to talk about it. Show Notes Apologies for the sound quality on Brenna’s audio during the interview. Brenna made the mistake of trying to record her […]
Brenna is thinking about who gets the "second best" learning experience and she's joined by the co-op students she's spending the summer with to talk working in the unit, learning technologies, and more.
Brenna is all by herself and sounding like a bullfrog today as she thinks (still, again, more) about AI.
Brenna is thinking about how we choose the tools we use, and she's joined by two inspirational instructors to talk community collaboration and authentic assessment.
This week, Brenna is having lots and lots of AI thoughts (to pair with lots and lots of AI programming), and she's joined by all her favourite LT&I colleagues -- literally all of them! -- to talk about inclusive design.
This week, Brenna is thinking about good citational practice and the importance of working in community, and she's joined by two people who know a lot about just that.
This week, Brenna is reminding you about the Moodle upgrade tomorrow (Tuesday) and talking student success with a bright light on campus.
This week, Brenna is practicing gratitude, looking for compassion, and celebrating TRU's unique, care-centred Veterinary Technology program.
This week, Brenna is thinking about how much of our learning doesn't take place in a classroom, and she's joined by an expert in how we go about recognizing and rewarding that learning.
This week, Brenna is thinking about why she struggles to get hands-on, so she's off to the Makerspace in search of creativity, inspiration, and dirty hands.
Brenna is thinking about her own history of arts education and the value of a circuitous path, and she's joined by someone who can talk to her about the new theatre production opening at TRU this week.
Brenna is thinking about different ways to think of openness, and she's joined by a new face at TRU to talk about student success and belonging.
Brenna is thinking about the difference between access and accommodation, and she's joined by someone who knows the ropes to talk about academic integrity.
Reading Week is over, friends, and spring awaits. Change is in the air over on the Open Learning side of the TRU house, and so Brenna has invited someone who knows way more than her to come and talk about it.
Brenna is back from a surprisingly long (even to her) hiatus to ease back in to weekly recordings and share her excitement about TPC/PD Week, and she's joined by some pals to talk about their TPC presentations!
Brenna is here with a quick minisode to welcome you to the fourth annual TRU Digital Detox. Wahey! This year's theme is The Robots Are Coming: AI and the Education Revolution.
Brenna is obsessed with thinking about AI in education these days, so she's joined by the only other paranoid weirdo she knows to talk about it.
Brenna is thinking about exam week rhythms and is joined by someone who knows a lot about the very different rhythms of a very different kind of classroom.
After a lengthy hiatus, Brenna is back to talk about how artificial intelligence and machine learning impact students already -- even aside from the hysteria around AI essays -- and she's joined by someone who knows what's up to talk about collective bargaining.
Brenna has had reason(s) this week to think about perception and how it shapes our understanding of experience -- and ourselves -- and she's joined by some OL pals to talk about learning design.
Brenna is thinking through being overwhelmed and way behind, and she's joined by someone else working in instructional support at TRU (in a very different role!) to talk international education, faculty/student support, and learning modalities.
This week, Brenna is reflecting on reflection (AGAIN) and reminding you to build in rest for yourself and your students (ALSO AGAIN), and she's joined by a new face in the library to talk about inclusion and neurodiversity and Twitch Tuesdays (OH THAT BIT SOUNDS NEW).
Today, Brenna is thinking about learning and joy, and she's joined by a colleague to talk about a brand new, timely, and urgent new Master's degree program at TRU.
Today, Brenna is thinking about community, academic freedom, and the importance of letting the experts speak, and she's joined by the newest member of the team for a getting-to-know-you chat.
Brenna is greeting the Fall with an open heart and some big, big feelings. She's glad she has you to talk to.
Brenna reflects on the season that was and says the word gratitude eight times in thirteen minutes, and she says "see you soon" until the fall.
Brenna is thinking about how to teach students to write -- and why we assign so much writing with so little instruction -- and she's joined by one of TRU's postdocs to talk about equity, diversity, and inclusion and the role of cultural mapping in TRU's next steps.
Brenna is trying to define open -- as in hearts -- and is joined by one of Open Learning's own to celebrate an important achievement.
Brenna is wrestling with the line between optimism and hope (and trying to explain why she cares), and she's joined by the newest member of the OL team to talk about serving students.
Brenna is thinking about what it means to belong, and she's joined by the newest member of the team for an introduction and some chat about learning tech.
This week, Brenna sounds like hell -- apologies for the audio journey into mucus -- but she's joined by the bossman to chat about what it means to be a learning technologist, and weirdly, about hope.
In this week's minisode, Brenna is back in the office and excited to tell you all about what she has brewing for the summer.
In this week's minisode, Brenna talks about why the show is going on hiatus for a few weeks, and gets vulnerable thinking about why burnout is so hard to talk about.
This week, Brenna is experiencing technical difficulties, so it's a good day to talk about the new Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering degree here at TRU.
Brenna is realizing she is little more than a sentient houseplant -- hello, sunshine! -- and she talks to someone who knows a lot about how to help students transition to life at university.
This week, Brenna is thinking about limits and to-do lists and moments of quiet, and she's joined by the newest member of the team to talk learning, play, and the best desserts in Kamloops.
This week, Brenna is pondering the mask-less future of campus and talking to someone whose research points the way for supporting online learners.
This week's show is a wee minisode so Brenna can bring you up to speed on what's going on with Open Ed Week and the podcasting course. Back to the normal format next week!
This week on the show, Brenna is celebrating! It's TPC time, so come learn more about what you'll see this year at the Teaching Practices Colloquium.
This week on the show, Brenna is thinking about the passage of time and what it means to cultivate a love of learning, and she's joined by someone for a serious conversation about suicide.
This week on the show, Brenna is thinking about student data and privacy (isn't she always) and bad players in big ed tech, and she's joined my someone who reminds her of why serving students matters.
Brenna is really, really into Wordle, okay? So she's making it a work thing. And then she's joined by someone who is an expert at talking about work things with our students.
Brenna is musing on what it would mean to claim she’s supporting the community without dealing with the hard stuff, and she’s invited some folks to join her to do just that.
This week, Brenna is winding down the fall semester and thinking about what 2022 to will look like for the TRU community.
Brenna is thinking about gratitude and grace after a difficult week, and she's joined by a research assistant in the Knowledge Makers program to get inspired.
Brenna is thinking about ungrading and all the possibilities it uncovers, and she's talking to the university's Researcher-in-Residence to get imbued with no small amount of hope.
Brenna is joined by two Peer Academic Coaches who coach her into remembering why we do what we do.
Much as the sun will always rise and much as the rain will always fall, sometime around mid-semester the wheels will fall off the truck and Brenna will not meet her production deadline.
Brenna is thinking about authenticity and is joined by her partner in crime to discuss their current project.
Brenna is wishing for more time and chatting with her co-facilitators about the TRU Podcasting Masterclass.
Brenna is drawing some boundaries around the capacity of boundaries to improve her life, and she's joined by a new friend to chat all things composition and student support.
Brenna is thinking about reconciliation and she's joined by a student -- and veritable dynamo -- to talk about storytelling and what makes us human.
Brenna is sick, but she's joined for some cozy and vulnerable return-to-campus realness in today's interview.
This week, Brenna is thinking about joyfulness in teaching and, conveniently, interviews an utter delight about being back in the classroom.
This week, Brenna is wrestling with uncertainty, and the boss swings by to play podcast host.
This week, Brenna is thinking about the role this podcast should play in these continuing unprecedented times.
This week, Brenna is thinking about beginnings and endings as she closes the book on Season One of You Got This! Hello, Summer hiatus! And she's joined by The Boss Man to talk about the year that was.
This week, Brenna is thinking about openness and open pedagogical practices, and she's joined by someone who knows a lot about hands-on learning.
This week, Brenna is thinking about inclusion, and is joined by someone who knows way more than she does to talk about it more.
Brenna is behind the eight ball (evergreen tweet) and talks to the newest member of the team about life in the EdTech trenches (and Animal Crossing).
Brenna is thinking about how comically, egregiously bad she is at revising her own work today, and she's joined by a new faculty member who took the pandemic teaching challenge on with all guns blazing.
Brenna is thinking about how we will accommodate each other and our students as health anxieties and other traumas keep people from campus, and she's joined by someone whose approach to the classroom was changed for the better by the pandemic.
The gang's all here this week to talk about the Summer Programming Suite from Learning Technology and Innovation, and Brenna is thinking about reigniting your professional spark.
Brenna is behind the eight ball this week, so no interview: just some reflections about how to reconcile with the person you've become through the pandemic.
Brenna is making friends and enemies with her thinking about entitlement this week, and she's joined by someone who has been in the trenches through all of this to debrief on the year that was.
This week, Brenna is reflecting on reflection and on the power of kindness, and is joined by someone who lives and breathes "open" even more than she does.
This week, Brenna is trying to figure out if this really is the home stretch, or if it's just Groundhog Day, and she's joined by someone who loves to geek out about data as much as she does.
This week, Brenna is back from a surprise hiatus with an episode from her personal beforetimes. She talks about Open Ed Week and is joined by the Open Learning dream team to talk about a new OER for the campus community (and beyond).
This week, Brenna is joined by some colleagues from across campus to preview the Teaching Practices Colloquium, and she issues a wee reminder about rest.
This week, Brenna has some thoughts on That VitalSource Letter, and is joined by someone who really knows copyright to talk about what faculty need to know about using materials online.
Brenna is thinking about the rise in numbers of students seeking accommodations, and talks with two TRU community members who have ideas about how we can pre-emptively make our courses more accessible.
Brenna wants to talk again about asynchronous teaching and what we want to carry forward into the brave new (hybrid?) future, and invites someone with a really positive Fall experience to talk about how she did it.
Brenna is thinking about how the semester seems to be off to a slow start and recommending guest voices as a way to find your mojo -- and is joined by one such guest voice.
Brenna is back for one more solo episode before resuming interviews next week, and we're talking New Year's resolutions.
Brenna is ready for vacation, but not before she tells you all about the Winter term programming, and hectors you about taking a rest.
Brenna is flying solo this week and reflecting on the results of the latest findings of the Student Survey of Virtual Delivery.
Brenna is reflecting on how being bad at things is hard -- maybe something to remember in our teaching? -- and is joined by a video enthusiast to talk about Gen-Z teaching.
Brenna is looking for a laugh this week, and is joined by the Dean of Students to make a point about making learning meaningful (and share love for supplemental instruction).
Brenna is looking past her gingerbread latte and towards Winter term, and she's joined by two TRU professors to talk about a different kind of approach to online learning.
In the ninth episode, Brenna goes looking for inspiration lost and chats with a colleague in faculty development about why a book club might be just the ticket.
In the eighth episode, Brenna's on her own (or so she thinks) to talk about making do and about the late-Fall programming plan for Learning Technology and Innovations. Listen for the cameo at the end of the show.
In the seventh episode, Brenna's thinking about taking a reset if things aren't working, and two instructional designers pop by to share resources for doing just that.
In the sixth episode, Brenna wonders about clarity and communication and how our relationship are always being negotiated, and chats with a student union insider about what we need to focus on right now.
In the fifth episode, Brenna thinks about support and how overwhelming everything is right now for everyone on campus, and talks to an expert about how to find help and support when we need it most.
In the fourth episode, Brenna thinks a lot about trust and invites an academic integrity specialist to join her and do the same
In the third episode, Brenna talks about surprises, BBB crashes, and wonders about rethinking trigger warnings, and then she chats video and engagement with the King of Kamloops.
In the second episode, Brenna offers some thoughts on extending grace to our students and to ourselves, and nerds out about new Moodle features with her closest colleague.
In the first episode, Brenna offers some advice for first-week teaching and interviews her boss, which results in a confusing Kool and the Gang reference.